I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.

My conservative brothers and sisters seem to argue that God revealed everything to us in scripture. Ever since, it has simply been our difficult but straightforward task to conform ourselves to God's will revealed there and to repent when we are unable or unwilling to do so. For me, there is something static and lifeless in such a view of God. Could it be that even the Bible is too small a box in which to enclose God?

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.

It seems to me, then, that vulnerability and and self-disclosure are at the heart of what we understand about the nature of God. And the reason I believe gay and lesbian people are spiritual people is that we too have participated in vulnerability and self-disclosure, especially in the process of coming-out. When someone shares with you who they really, really are, it is a special offering. To do so when it risks rejection is a profound, holy gift.

The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.